squid-3.4.8_1 leaking memory

Victor Sudakov vas at mpeks.tomsk.su
Thu Sep 25 11:04:35 UTC 2014


Dennis Glatting wrote:
> > 
> > squid-3.4.8_1 seems to be leaking memory heavily. Its SIZE and RES are
> > growing several MB per minute until eventually swapping begins.
> > 
> > Is anyone using it? Have you encountered this problem?
> > 
> > The relevant entries in squid.conf are:
> > 
> > cache_mem 128 MB
> > cache_dir ufs /webcache/cache 512 16 256
> > memory_pools off # neither "on" nor "off" have any effect on leaking.
> > 
> > As you see, the memory requirements should be rather modest.
> > 
> > Running on 8.4-RELEASE-p16 i386.
> > 
> 
> The Squid Cache web site DOES NOT list 3.4.8 as the stable release,
> rather 3.4.7 is listed as the stable release. 

Well, what is 3.4.8 doing in the ports collection then? Someone was
too quick to adopt it as www/squid ?

> There are also 18 change
> sets listed for 3.4.7 and three for 3.4.8.

Is there a quick and easy way to to downgrade www/squid to 3.4.7?

Tonight I'll be trying to replace it with www/squid33 anyway.

> 
> I did not follow the thread where we went from 3.4.7 to 3.4.8.
> 

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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov at sibptus.tomsk.ru


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